Burial Rites

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In northern Iceland, 1829, Ágnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover.
Ágnes is sentto wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in
their midst, the family avoid contact with Ágnes. Only Tóti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's story begins to emerge - and with it the family's terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed . . .
Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving növel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In northern Iceland, 1829, Ágnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover.
Ágnes is sentto wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a convicted murderer in
their midst, the family avoid contact with Ágnes. Only Tóti, the young assistant priest appointed Agnes's spiritual guardian, is compelled to try to understand her. As the year progresses and the hardships of rural life force the household to work side by side, Agnes's story begins to emerge - and with it the family's terrible realization that all is not as they had assumed . . .
Based on actual events, Burial Rites is an astonishing and moving növel about the truths we claim to know and the ways in which we interpret what we're told. In beautiful, cut-glass prose, Hannah Kent portrays Iceland's formidable landscape, in which every day is a battle for survival, and asks, how can one woman hope to endure when her life depends upon the stories told by others?
'So gripping I wanted to rush through the pages, but so beautifully written I wanted to linger over every sentence. Outstanding.' Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles
'Spell-binding and moving, it's the kind of növel that gets under your skin, moves your blood, your heart.' Megan Abbott, author of The End of Everything
'This compelling, ripped-from-real-life tale reminds me of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Karin Slaughter, author of Kisscut Vissza